Author Archives: maddg

This is as much a show tune as a recessional, but at least this song by Fr Ricky Manalo hasn’t too much trickery to actually be sung with one voice.  Oddly, however, the chorus is harder to sing than the … Continue reading →

Scot Crandel has set a text by Delores Dufner OSB in a gentle funk style for this song. I could be another sending forth song but has a specific intention for mission and ministry. The third verse is more like … Continue reading →

I suppose this is meant to be a recessional but it sounds more a solo vehicle with perhaps a singalong chorus.  It is by Rory Cooney and he has fun finding rhymes for Lord (hoard, bored, sword and horde – … Continue reading →

While I’m still in the gathering and sending forth section of Spirit & Song Vol 1,this song by Tom Booth, Israel Houghton and Matt Maher, for all its merits, is just not suitable for congregational singing.  The two verses and … Continue reading →

I’m still blogging the gathering and sending forth songs from Spirit & Song Vol 1. This song by Jean Anthony Greif is, at least in Tom Tomasczek’s arrangement, a gentle funk setting of the Beatitudes so I’m not really sure … Continue reading →

I’m not sure I can find a spot in a liturgy for this one by Jesse Manibusan. It might be better in a praise and worship setting. It is a guitarists song and has the classic restrained verses and feakout … Continue reading →

Mark Friedman has written a gathering song with a refrain in Spanish or English with a Latin feel. In Australia, where there is generally no reason to sing in Spanish, there is no reason that the full English version could … Continue reading →

These songs have been chosen by the music liturgy team: Entrance: Jesus Is Risen (O’Brien-Ogilvie) AOV NG 82 Psalm: The Lord is My Shepherd – Crimond AOV 1/144 Gifts: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71 Communion: Shepherd Me O God … Continue reading →

A song by Julie Smith and Tim Smith (not Timothy R Smith) that could be a recessional but also with an obvious application for ministry and commissioning. The text is here and you can hear it here, although this is very much … Continue reading →

This is another song from the gathering and sending forth songs in Spirit & Song Vol 1. It is by Timothy R Smith and is based on passages from Luke 12 and Psalm 41. I think it is more a … Continue reading →